Call for Proposals
Please note that all sessions that have been selected for the ARUCC 2012 Conference program will be confirmed no later than March 1st. We apologize for the delay but had a large number of submissions to consider. We will confirm the status of all sessions shortly.
The ARUCC 2012 Conference Organizing Committee invites proposals focused on initiatives, practices and policies that have supported institutional strategic enrolment management initiatives. Submit a short abstract/proposal for the upcoming national Conference to be held in Ottawa, Ontario from June 25 -28, 2012 by completing the “Call for Proposals Form”
Submission deadline: December 1, 2011
The designated contact will be notified by January 31, 2012 if their proposal has been chosen for the 2012 Program.
Themes
The program for the ARUCC 2012 Conference will be informed by broad themes relevant to strategic enrolment leadership for registrarial professionals. Sessions are sought that focus on the strategic and operational activities that contribute to achieving success with institutional enrolment management, recruitment, admission, retention and student satisfaction.
The goal of the Conference is to provide Conference attendees with informative and insightful collegial networking opportunities and professional development sessions of relevance to strategic enrolment leadership within the profession.
Pre-Conference Workshops (Monday, June 25, 2012)
Those interested in leading a Pre-Conference workshop should identify their proposal topic (and suggested session length) on the “Call for Proposals Form”
Conference Session Tracks (Tuesday, June 26 to Thursday, June 28, 2012)
There are seven concurrent session tracks. Each is seeking to ensure participants leave sessions with specific take-away strategies relevant to the track theme that can be applied at their schools. Those submitting session proposals will be asked to choose a specific track; however, the program committee may decide, based on a review of proposals, to realign the tracks. Session leaders are encouraged to identify and deliver on specific learning outcomes that will add strategic value to Conference participants. The sessions of greatest interest will be those that encourage facilitative discussion as well as a sharing of innovative approaches and ideas.
A. Strategic Enrolment Leadership and Governance Track
Institutions often struggle with developing SEM plans and initiatives in a cost constrained environment. Institutional mission, a necessary component, is often debated or challenging to articulate. Building consensus at any level of a school is a considerable challenge and yet a necessary one to achieve recruitment and retention success.
This track presents an opportunity for you to share your institutional SEM leadership and governance model and/or policies to continue the conversations around developing sustainable and effective strategic enrolment leadership capacity and governance at Canadian institutions.
B. SEM/Student Success Research Track
Strategic enrolment management is long-standing in Canada although the lack of Canadian research and literature in the field suggests otherwise. Many Canadian SEM professionals who have decades of experience are actively exploring and researching new SEM ideas and initiatives leveraging evidence-based tactics informed by primary and secondary research.
This track represents an opportunity for you to share your latest and compelling research in the field.
C. Academic Resource/Scheduling Track
Institutional management of campuses and capital expansion opportunities for funding to improve or grow institutional space are areas often undervalued and misunderstood in the SEM/Student Success area. How best to use academic space is a daily conversation at many institutions across the country. Constraints are many and cover the gamut from funding, quality of space, database management, disability access needs, utilization, and so forth. Often campuses appear to have limited learning spaces and to be at capacity. The tensions that result when various internal offices compete for access to appropriate space as a venue to support the academic pedagogic and student success needs are many and charged with challenge and politics.
This track represents an opportunity for you to share latest innovations and approaches to solving the space challenge while maximizing recruitment, retention, capital planning objectives and/or student success objectives.
D. Retention and Student Success Leadership Track
The Canadian educational post secondary environment offers extensive examples of initiatives and policies that contribute to retention and student success. Whether it’s small or large, often such programs are instrumental supports to institutional SEM objectives. Examples might include launching specialized programming to enhance student connections and engagement, creating a new environment such as a learning commons to encourage and support student success, developing new co-curricular opportunities in partnership with faculty to support in-class success, developing vendor partnerships that allow for student focused service delivery and so on.
This track represents an opportunity to share successful retention and student success initiatives and policies that are supported by demonstrated evidence of success.
E. Recruitment and Admissions Leadership Track
It is essential for SEM leaders to focus on carefully planned recruitment and admissions operations and plans. Achieving success means different things to different schools. Every institution is complex as well as seeks to attract students that meet uniquely defined institutional missions and objectives. How activities are framed, how each one is executed, whether or not an optimal level of institutional coordination exists or is needed, whether or not there is reasonable access and usage of the right data, and so forth only touch the surface of the challenge. External factors such as perception and reputation as well as internal considerations shape recruitment and admissions planning as well as help inform the appropriate pairing of relevant and timely communications.
This track represents an opportunity for you to share strategic initiatives in the areas of recruitment and admissions that have had significant impact for your institution.
F. Mobility Leadership Track
Enhancing student mobility and creating institutional environments that support access to education are interests shared by academic and administrative colleagues. SEM student service professionals are critical partners to institutional efforts to expedite inter and intra student mobility be it for new or continuing students. Growing interest in and appreciation for PLAR, joint programs, shared registration, seamless transfer and other mobility initiatives further emphasizes the need for flexible SEM environments. Examples of impediments to mobility for students are not uncommon and yet the opportunities to enhance the seamless experience for students are many.
This track is intended as a support to the PCCAT Annual Meeting which directly follows the ARUCC Conference and is being developed in consultation with PCCAT. This track represents an opportunity for you to share strategic challenges and subsequent initiatives that have supported student mobility.
G. Data Leadership Track:
SEM leadership necessitates leveraging data to inform effective decision making in recruitment and retention. Understanding what type of information is needed when to inform SEM thinking at the most strategic level is critical and ensures the right conversations are happening within and across institutions. Given the growing complexity and joint partnerships apparent in the Canadian postsecondary environment as well as the opportunities to facilitate student mobility through data sharing, the importance of robust Canadian and institutional data is becoming increasingly essential. As a community that routinely supports academic colleagues in delivering strategic missions and objectives, SEM student service professionals serve a very important role in this area.
This track represents an opportunity to advance the conversations around data leadership with a goal to improving research, evidence based decision-making and student mobility.
Strategic Roundtable Discussions/Panels
Each track will be supported by a Roundtable discussion opportunity facilitated by SEM leaders. If you are interested in participating as a panelist in one of the Roundtables, please identify this on the “Call for Proposals Form”. Given the volume of interest, those chosen will be notified separately.
The following represents the roster of strategic roundtables.
R1. Research Roundtable
R2. Strategic Enrolment Leadership and Governance
R3. Academic/Resource/ Scheduling Roundtable
R4. Retention and Student Success
R5. Recruitment and Admissions
R6. Student Mobility
R7. Data Leadership Roundtable/Panel
Before you begin
- Pre-Conference Workshops: Pre-Conference workshops can be either half a day (3 hours) or a full day.
- Conference Sessions:
- All Conference sessions will be 60 minutes plus 15 minutes for questions and answers.
- Session presenters must bring their own laptops and are encouraged to preload their presentation.
- If session presenters wish to have handouts, they are encouraged to provide their own.
- Internet access will be available for a fee. The Conference organizers will arrange for a data projector and screen and microphones as necessary.
- Presenters should also be prepared to submit their paper for posting on the ARUCC website for delegates to download in advance of the Conference.
- A presenter discount is available as follows:
- Those attending only on the day they are presenting are welcome to breakfast and/or lunch and are not required to register as a delegate.
- Presenters registering for the entire Conference will receive 30% off their registration fee.
- Strategic case study sessions executed in partnership with vendors are welcome and will be considered.
- Roundtable Sessions: Follow the same protocols as Conference sessions.
Conference Program Committee Members
Carla DaSilva, University of British Columbia
Anna Di Rezze, CRALO representative
Joanne Duklas, ARUCC President and Chair of Program Committee
Rosa Lavoie, CRALO representative
Sharon Kinasz, CRALO representative
Elisabeth Paradis, OURA representative
Julie Parna, York University, ARUCC Accreditation and Mobility representative
KJ Pinder, York University
Kate Ross, Simon Fraser University, ARUCC Research Working Group Chair
Jeannie Boyes, Conference organizer (as needed)
Conference Steering Committee Members
Heather Brown, OURA Past President
Joanne Duklas, ARUCC President and Chair of Steering Committee
Sharon Kinasz, CRALO representative
Richard Levin, ARUCC OURA representative
Clay MacDougall, ARUCC CRALO representative
Robert Perrier, OURA President
Jeannie Boyes, Conference Organizer
Pre-Conference Workshops: Monday June 25, 2012
Conference: Tuesday, June 26 to Thursday, June 28, 2012
All sessions take place at the Ottawa Marriott Hotel